Jewish Life in Small-Town America
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780300106718
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Jewish Studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Ethnic Studies - General; Sociology of Religion; History; Sociology; Social conditions; History: American; USA; Jews; Sociology - Urban; History / General; Cities and towns; United States; United States - State & Local - General; 19th century; Judaism; Religious aspects
First sentence: At the end of the 1920s, the Jewish population of the United States stood at about 4.25 million people, the vast majority of whom were immigrants who had come to America in a huge wave of migration from Eastern Europe during the previous half-century, or the children of those immigrants.